Beautiful! People's zero points can be at very different places on these scales, and it takes a lot of effort to shift them.

> This post features contributions from a coworker. Also with contributions from Gemini 2.5

Smelled it from “What's one positive action you can commit to this week?”

Thinking back to a failed role, many years ago - the articles first 'sanctions' list reads like a checklist of achievements for the situation that I blindly dug myself into while under the high stress of the time.

It took until quite a few years later to have a clearer perspective on it. Accordingly, with hindsight I wish I'd had the articles wisdom a couple of decades ago, as a preventative - though I partly wonder if I'd have had the brain structure to really take it in, back then.

I avoid the word "sanction" whenever I can because it's an auto-antonym and just too confusing.